Leadership and Spirituality: How Women Are Redefining Success Through Alignment

For generations, leadership has been defined by endurance, performance, and pressure. Success meant pushing harder, staying longer, and sacrificing parts of ourselves in order to be taken seriously. But as Monique Renée, Intuitive Strategy Advisor, Leadership Trainer & Coach, so clearly demonstrates, that model is no longer sustainable — nor is it necessary.

Through her work with women leaders and entrepreneurs, Monique supports a new way of leading that honors both inner wisdom and outer impact. Her approach integrates intuitive insight with practical strategy, helping women make aligned decisions, build resilient businesses and careers, and lead without abandoning their values or well-being.

As more women question traditional definitions of success, Monique’s perspective sits at the powerful intersection of leadership and spirituality — where intuition becomes intelligence, alignment fuels clarity, and growth is guided by purpose rather than pressure.

In the conversation below, Monique shares how spiritually aligned leadership is reshaping decision-making, success, and sustainability for women today — and why community, reflection, and self-trust are no longer optional, but essential.

1. What does it truly mean to lead at the intersection of leadership and spirituality, and why is this resonating so deeply with women leaders today?

Leading at the intersection of leadership and spirituality means honoring both inner wisdom and outer impact. It’s about making decisions that are not only effective and strategic, but also aligned with values, integrity, and purpose.

For many women leaders today, this resonates because the old models—power through pressure, success through sacrifice—no longer work. Women are waking up to the truth that sustainable leadership requires wholeness. When we lead from alignment rather than depletion, we create results that feel meaningful, ethical, and deeply satisfying—not just impressive on paper.

2. Many women are redefining success beyond titles and revenue. How does sacred alignment shift leadership, decision-making, and growth?

Sacred alignment reframes success as right relationship—with our energy, our time, our values, and our season of life. When women are aligned, decisions become clearer and faster because they’re no longer driven by fear, comparison, or external validation.

Growth stops being about constant expansion and starts being about intentional evolution. Women begin to ask: What am I building, and why? What am I saying yes to—and what am I complete with? That shift creates leadership that is both powerful and grounded.

3. Can you share a moment in your own leadership journey when aligning with your intuition, values, or spiritual practice changed the direction—or outcome—of your work?

There have been several, but one pivotal moment was when I stopped trying to fit my work into traditional leadership containers and instead trusted the integration of ancient wisdom with modern strategy.

Listening to my intuition meant slowing down, refining my offerings, and designing work that honored rhythm, energy, and seasons—not just productivity. That decision changed everything: my clients became more aligned, my impact deepened, and my work finally felt like a true expression of who I am rather than what I thought leadership was supposed to look like. It allowed me to take a risk on myself, my gifts, and the way I knew I could be truly impactful and fulfilled. I just celebrated my business' 10-year anniversary because of this shift and risk. 

4. In a world that often rewards hustle and burnout, how can women cultivate grounded, spiritually aligned leadership while still building successful and sustainable careers or businesses?

By redefining discipline. Grounded leadership isn’t about doing less—it’s about doing what actually matters.

Spiritually aligned leaders learn to work with their energy instead of against it. They build boundaries, create intentional pauses, effectively communicate and honor their needs and desires, and design systems that support longevity. Ironically, this approach often leads to greater success because clarity replaces chaos, and focus replaces force.

5. How do spiritual practices such as reflection, meditation, prayer, or mindfulness support clarity, confidence, and resilience for women in leadership roles?

Spiritual practices create space—space to listen, to integrate, and to respond rather than react. Whether through reflection, meditation, prayer, or mindfulness, these practices help women reconnect to their inner authority and cultivate intuition and self-trust.

Over time, this builds deep confidence—not the loud kind, but the steady kind. It strengthens resilience because leaders learn how to return to center even in uncertainty, challenge, or change.

6. What shifts are you seeing among modern women leaders who prioritize alignment, well-being, and community over traditional models of power and success?

I see women prioritizing sustainability over status, collaboration over competition, and community over isolation. There’s a strong return to relational leadership—where success is shared and well-being is protected.

Modern women leaders are becoming more discerning. They’re choosing depth and meaning over speed and metrics alone. This is creating healthier organizations, more conscious businesses, and more fulfilled leaders.

At the same time, this shift isn’t just aspirational—it’s urgent. For the first time, data shows that women managers and leaders are the most disengaged segment of the workforce. The stress, overwhelm, and pressure of wearing so many hats—leading teams while caring for children, aging parents, households, and communities—is taking a real toll on women’s well-being.

When leaders are disengaged, that energy trickles down quickly to the people they lead, creating a deeper chasm of burnout, disconnection and resignations. Layered on top of this is a broader epidemic of loneliness and lack of meaning that many people are feeling. Even highly capable, successful women can experience a quiet sense of emptiness beneath the surface. This is why alignment, well-being, and community are no longer “nice to have”—they are essential to the future of leadership.

7. For women who feel called to lead more soulfully but fear being seen as “too spiritual” or “not strategic enough,” what guidance would you offer?

I would remind them that intuition is intelligence—and spirituality, when embodied, enhances strategy rather than replaces it.

The key is integration. You don’t have to abandon professionalism to honor your inner wisdom. When spiritual insight is grounded in action, language, and results, it becomes one of the most powerful leadership assets a woman can have.

8. Why do communities like FemCity play such an important role in supporting women who lead with both heart and strategy, and how does collective support amplify impact and success?

Communities like FemCity play a vital role because they restore something many women leaders are missing: belonging.

This past year as a member of FemCity has not only given me an outlet to create supportive personal relationships with other women leaders and entrepreneurs (while experiencing so much joy!), but also a place to both receive perspective and actively support the advancement of other women—sometimes through a simple word of wisdom, sometimes by simply sharing a fear.

FemCity helps me see other women as members of my tribe—a kind of chosen family that truly has my back. That collective support amplifies courage, clarity, and impact. When women are supported in community, leadership becomes lighter, braver, and far more sustainable.